| Título: | Bareback Sex: Masculinity, Silence, and the Dilemmas of Gay Health |
| Autores: | Haig, Thomas; Independent community-based researcher |
| Fecha: | 2006-12-21 |
| Publicador: | Canadian Journal of Comumunication |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article research-article Ethnography info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Tema: |
Cultural Analysis Face-to-face communication; Feminist/gender theory; Phenomenology |
| Descripción: | Abstract: Improving interpersonal communication skills has become an increasingly important aspect of HIV prevention strategies, based on the notion that this will contribute to more consistent condom use. The emergence of “barebacking” (intentionally unprotected casual sex among gay men) has foregrounded the limitations of such strategies. Efforts to encourage talk run counter to the ways in which silence is valued within bareback sex culture and serves to construct specifically masculine forms of pleasure and desire. This paper draws on gender analysis and phenomenology to consider how prevention organizations can come to grips with this dilemma by re-examining their own ways of interacting with the communities they serve. Using a range of examples, it explores ways organizations can work around barriers to interpersonal communication by enhancing their own ability to converse with community members on issues such as bareback sex. Résumé : Optimiser la qualité de la communication interpersonnelle est devenue un element essentiel des stratégies de prevention du VIH a fin de sensibiliser la population à utiliser systématiquement le préservatif et prévenir l’infection au VIH. L’émergence du « barebacking » (pratique intentionnelle de rapports sexuels non protégés chez certains gays) a cependant dévoilé les limites de ces stratégies. Les tentatives déployées pour promouvoir la communication vont à contrecourant de cette valeur qui est accordée au silence dans la culture du bareback sex, servant à l’élaboration des formes masculines de plaisir et de désir. Cet article s’appuie sur l’analyse des sexes et la phénoménologie pour examiner comment les organismes de prévention peuvent faire face à ce dilemme en questionnant leurs propres moyens d’interagir au sein des organismes communautaires. Ces organismes peuvent surmonter les obstacles à l’établissement d’une communication interpersonnelle efficace en améliorant leur propre aptitude à « dialoguer » avec les membres de la communauté sur des sujets comme le bareback sex. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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